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Audio excerpt of Carlock Stookesbury oral history recorded as part of the Tennessee State Parks Folklife Project. He discusses his wife's wintertime quilting. He mentions that she hangs the quilts from the ceiling over the bed. He also talks...

Confederate President Jeff Davis is pictured fleeing (in a crinoline dress) from an army camp, holding a dagger as a bonnet flies off his head. A soldier aims at gun at him and a woman in a dress appears to be in distress. Words by George Cooper....

In this letter, Bishop Polk questions the guilt of the person accused of burning their home in Sewanee, Tenn. He was anxious about his wife's unhappiness with the prosecution of the case and gave orders to have it dismissed. They worried that an...

Uncle Sam tries to secure the 36th button on national suffrage. Thirty-six states were required to ratify the Amendment before it became law. Look closely at his wife's dress and you can see a map of the United States at the top of the western...

Drawing of an angry-looking man in dressing gown and cap, with glasses perched on his forehead. He appears in the clouds above a clothesline holding laundry. On the ground are baskets, pails, an iron, and scrubbing brushes.